58 CABBAGE. 



FLAT DUTCH OR DRUMHEAD GROUP. 



In all catalogues these are made distinct classes, 

 and of each class there are numerous varieties; the 

 claim of superiority being based in the care used in 

 selection, and of the seeds being grown under the 

 most favorable conditions for the development of 

 the type desired. 



The name Flat Dutch was given the type to 

 designate it from the round or pointed heads as 

 grown in Holland nearly a century since. About 

 1800 we find Drumhead cabbage noticed, a name 

 applied because of the great size. A few years later 

 Flat Dutch Drumhead was listed and soon thereafter 

 the names became separated, and * 'early" and "late" 

 applied to each. 



There is much confusion in nomenclature in the 

 various classes of the Flat Dutch cabbages, because 

 of the popular or local names. In this class there 

 are three distinct types as regards earliness, and each 

 of these has about as many local or trade names as 

 there are dealers. There are, strictly speaking, 

 early, late and intermediate varieties. By planting 

 the three classes a difference in maturity of about 

 three weeks between the earliest and latest sorts will 

 be noticed. 



To show that the difference in varieties is more 

 imaginary than real, we would say that in our fields 

 and trial grounds, when parties have sent us their 

 stocks to grow, we have never had but one man that 

 was able to distinguish his own. 



In the early class, Henderson's Early Summer, 

 Early Flat Dutch, Early Drumhead, Newark Early 

 Flat Dutch, Early Deep Head and Faultless, are best 



